Posted on 09/25/2015 9:06:28 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
LIKE so many others, I was stunned by Speaker John A. Boehner’s announcement on Friday that he would step down at the end of October. For nearly six years — first as Republican whip and then as majority leader — I met with John on a daily, sometimes hourly, basis as we worked to lead the House Republican Conference. (SNIP) We are in the midst of a campaign to elect the next president. After two terms of President Obama, an economy that is growing too slowly and a retrenchment of American power abroad, the conservative to-do list for the next Republican president is quite long. That president’s success will require steady, capable hands in Congress to move a conservative vision forward. Now is not the time for more infighting. Now is the time to come together and lay out a positive, honest governing platform to take the country forward. This is what my friend John Boehner fought for, and this is what we must continue to fight for to honor his dedication to Congress and the American people.
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shame.
these two guys had opportunities to really become respected and to go down in history as having made significant positive differences for USA
instead, they go down into history’s dustbin
shame. but it was their choices, and they both had several years, plenty of time, in office to turn over new leaves and start doing good stuff. nada.
Thus sayeth the former U.S. House of Representatives member who was THROWN OUT OF OFFICE for refusing to engage in the fight to save our country!
Sit DOWN and STFU Cantor! You're Done!
Thanks to Eric Cantor, we now have the last nail in Boehner’s political coffin. Goodbye to both of them.
I don’t know. Boner probably more so than Cantor I think, but you may be right about both.
I don’t know them that well.
They sure were disappointing, tho. Especially Boner because he had the position to do good things and he mis-used the job to become O”s Enabler and Protector, instead.
An outright reversal of his duties.
Shame.
Cantor and Weiner need to do an “Odd Couple”-style reality show together...and stop pretending they’re politically relevant.
Growing too slowly?!! What in the hell is wrong with you Cantor. The economy is at a dead stop to negative GNP— when you take away all govt. jobs federal or state. Private sector being killed off as is manufacturing and commodity producers.
Food inflation— very real.
What a bling pig looking for a truffle. Out of touch.
I’d certainly settle for them going to the 5th circle or ring of Hell. But as I recall it, the 5th circle is reserved for the wrathful and sullen (anger).... Perhaps they’d fit in better in ring 4 (greed), per your note.
Or maybe the 8th ring (fraud) or even the 9th (treachery)?
Take your pick!
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unfortunately, they’ll have plenty of their political pals down there for company
I think Eric Cantor has written all this Purple Prose to reassure Boehner. “Don’t worry John, i got you all lined up for 12 Lobbying interviews on K.Street. They’ll even give you your own box of Puffs for any left over crocodile tears you might shed. You’ll be making money up the yin yang!
Yes!! Let's win one for the Tippler!!
Or the Kennedy wing.
Thanks for chiming in, Eric.
Blew what? They were/are both liberals. If perhaps you mean their cover, that’s been blown long ago.
During President Obama’s first two years in office, his party controlled the House and for a time had a supermajority in the Senate. Almost entirely on their own they enacted a nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill, Obamacare and Dodd-Frank financial regulations. Not for the first or last time, alternative suggestions from Republicans were dismissed out of hand.A bigger pile of lies and doublespeak I have not read in a long time. Never mind libeling Reagan at the end of this part of the screed.
Following that, the American people elected Republicans to the majority in the House. And Mr. Obama’s liberal platform ground to a halt. Spending actually went down. Republicans, led by Speaker Boehner, provided the check and balance voters had demanded.
But somewhere along the road, a number of voices on the right began demanding that the Republican Congress not only block Mr. Obama’s agenda but enact a reversal of his policies. They took to the airwaves and the Internet and pronounced that congressional Republicans could undo the president’s agenda—with him still in office, mind you—and enact into law a conservative vision for government, without compromise.
Strangely, according to these voices, the only reason that was not occurring had nothing to do with the fact that the president was unlikely to repeal his own laws, or that under the Constitution, absent the assent of the president or two-thirds of both houses of Congress, you cannot make law. The problem was a lack of will on the part of congressional Republican leaders.
Now we see that these same voices have turned to the threat of a government shutdown or a default on the debt as the means by which we can force President Obama to agree to their demands. I wonder what they would have said, if during the last two years of President Bush’s term, the Democratic congressional majority had tried something similar.
The tragedy here is that these voices have not been honest with our fellow conservatives. They have not been honest about what can be accomplished when your party controls Congress, but not the White House. As a result we missed chances to achieve important policies for the good of the country.
The response I often hear to these points is: “Well, Republicans at least need to fight.” On this I agree. It is imperative that we fight for what we believe in. But we should fight smartly. I have never heard of a football team that won by throwing only Hail Mary passes, yet that is what is being demanded of Republican leaders today. Victory on the field is more often a result of three yards and a cloud of dust. In politics this means incremental progress, winning hearts and minds before winning the vote—the kind of governance Ronald Reagan perfected. …
These are they guys who promised and lied to us
Shut up Eric. Next time find a speaker of the house that can’t be bought, bribed or blackmailed into going against what the people elected him to do.
Yup all the RINO scum like Boner and Cantor need to go.
Next up? Graham and McConnell and McCain. And more
Oh shut up, you loser. How much you making on K-Street these days anyway?
I don’t think any of that was necessary with Boehner.
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